NIMBY Facilities

NIMBY (Not in My Back Yard) facilities are those public facilities that are essential for social operation, but are likely to cause local residents, organizations or institutions to worry about the negative impacts on health, environmental quality, asset value, etc. and those resulting social conflicts. NIMBY facilities include garbage recycling stations, landfill sites, nuclear power plants, funeral homes, and so on. The principles of NIMBY facility site selection often adopt the ‘least resistance principle’ rather than the ‘minimum distance cost principle.

Edited and translated by Zhang Yifei